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I need a few good quotes about childhood,memories,etc for a christmas present. Any good ideas?


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1. "There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again." -Elizabeth Lawrence

2. "We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it." -George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

3. "The greatest poem ever known / Is one all poets have outgrown: / The poetry, innate, untold, / Of being only four years old." -Christopher Morley, To a Child

4. "What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen." -Cynthia Ozick

5. "And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?" -Rainer Maria Rilke

6. "Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart." -Thomas Fuller

7. "A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." -Bill Vaughan

8. "Childhood memories are the stabilizer of our lives! They are the safe place we go to when things do not go well or when we are feeling unsure. I cannot imagine living my adult life without the memories of those years of happiness and innocence." -Flickr user "Mimosa"

9. "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself." -Kahlil Gibran

10. A poem about childhood memories of a best friend: http://www.forwardgarden.com/forward/405...

If you'd like more fluffy Internet poems and things like that, I suggest checking out http://www.forwardgarden.com. If you're looking for more quotes, try Quotegarden, Thinkexist, or Brainyquote. They all have huge searchable databases. You could also try those Chicken Soup For the Soul books, which are stuffed with inspirational stories, anecdotes and quotes.

Best of luck & happy giftmaking!